EGA is first company in the world to produce aluminium commercially using solar power
Emirates Global Aluminium, the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer recently announced that BMW Group is the first customer for EGA’s CelestiAL aluminium, made with the power of the desert sun.
EGA has supplied metal to BMW Group since 2013 for use in the German carmaker’s engines and other parts. EGA will supply 43,000 tonnes of CelestiAL aluminium to BMW Group per year.
BMW Group’s annual supply contract with EGA is worth a three-digit million-euro sum. EGA’s CelestiAL metal will cover almost half the annual requirements of Plant Landshut, the BMW Group’s only production facility for light metal casting in Europe.
“We are delighted that the BMW Group is the first customer for EGA’s low carbon CelestiAL. Aluminium is lightweight, strong and infinitely recyclable, and that is why it has an important role to play in developing a more sustainable society,” commented Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer, EGA.
“In EGA, we have found a strong partner who values sustainable development just as much as we do. Aluminium plays an important role in e-mobility and using sustainably produced aluminium is tremendously important to our company,” remarked Dr. Andreas Wendt, BMW AG Board Member for Purchasing and Supplier Network.
EGA’s sourcing of solar power from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park through Dubai’s electricity grid is tracked and traced through the use of the International Renewable Energy Certification System.
